To Tackle A Stubborn Girl

Stubbornness is by far one of the top problems faced by parents. Do you have a stubborn child at home? Have you been wondering how to tackle a stubborn child, to get him or her to listen to you? Well, I have one stubborn child at home too, actually three.

Let’s hear the story about this little girl and skip the story of the other two boys.

She was the angel at home, always listening to instructions, giving me no problems at all. All of a sudden, she turned into a stubborn child, one who doesn’t want to do as told. It was difficult to get her to finish her meals, difficult to get her to wash her hair, difficult to get her to sit in the car seat and difficult to get her to do most of the things.

It may be a transition phase when she develops her characteristics and her own personality but hey, as a parent, I got to do something, don’t I?

So, we use a special “tool” to get her to behave.

Our special “tool”:

What’s in that little kitty that made her behave? Well, we made the little girl the “Jie Jie” (Elder sister) and made the kitty “the baby”. Her new role as an elder sister is to look after the baby and show good example to the baby so that the baby would grow up to be a good child.

Now, this little stubborn girl became the GOOD JIE JIE, doing things which she refused to do previously, trying to show good example to the little baby.

There, that took care of her stubbornness............ for awhile and I'm waiting to see how long it will last.